…Despise not the day of small things…

[handwritten note: Fixed] ¶ It has been said, [xx: to] “despise not the day of small things”. While I am no theologian, I will emphasize as a mechanic that he who reasons will see at once the importance of hunting for all causes both great and small that would produce shocks of the nervous system which would be followed by confusion in the physiological laboratory of animal life. As small a thing as a pin driven into the body, nail or thorn would produce a shock that is followed by suspended nerve action, as would cause stoppage of the blood in its venous circulation in its course from [sp: extremities] back to the heart and lungs. A jolt that would produce a slip of a rib enough to cause contraction [xx: is a] of a fiber would produce an irritation that would detain the blood long enough to ferment and produce erysipelas with all its deadly effects. [xx: That] Thus the importance of never stopping until you have found the cause producing [xx: an] abnormal effects that are designated by names, such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, pneumonia, pleurisy and all abnormal variations of the head, neck, thorax, abdomen and pelvis, a twisted limb at the hip joint produces a soreness and irritation that is followed by fermentation and fever resulting in tuberculosis of the hip and extend its poisonous compound through the whole system winding up with tubercular consumption, all starting from a fall, by a slightly bruised hip. [xx: That] Thus the importance of seeking for and knowing the cause that has produced this dangerous and deadly disease tuberculosis. All writers have admitted the facts herein suggested. Volumes are written and the report is mystified in delusive language. The truth is not known nor presented to the satisfaction of him who does reason from and effect to cause as an American mechanic and a philosopher who never sleeps nor slumbers. He knows that he has found the cause that has produced this progressive deadly result, pulmonary tuberculosis, tuberculosis of the hip, spine or any other location or part of the whole system. We must see the cause before we can judiciously proceed or hope to give relief on such cases.

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[handwritten note: Fixed] ¶ It has been said, [xx: to] “despise not the day of small things”. While I am no theologian, I will emphasize as a mechanic that he who reasons will see at once the importance of hunting for all causes both great and small that would produce shocks of the nervous system which would be followed by confusion in the physiological laboratory of animal life. As small a thing as a pin driven into the body, nail or thorn would produce a shock that is followed by suspended nerve action, as would cause stoppage of the blood in its venous circulation in its course from [sp: extremities] back to the heart and lungs. A jolt that would produce a slip of a rib enough to cause contraction [xx: is a] of a fiber would produce an irritation that would detain the blood long enough to ferment and produce erysipelas with all its deadly effects. [xx: That] Thus the importance of never stopping until you have found the cause producing [xx: an] abnormal effects that are designated by names, such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, pneumonia, pleurisy and all abnormal variations of the head, neck, thorax, abdomen and pelvis, a twisted limb at the hip joint produces a soreness and irritation that is followed by fermentation and fever resulting in tuberculosis of the hip and extend its poisonous compound through the whole system winding up with tubercular consumption, all starting from a fall, by a slightly bruised hip. [xx: That] Thus the importance of seeking for and knowing the cause that has produced this dangerous and deadly disease tuberculosis. All writers have admitted the facts herein suggested. Volumes are written and the report is mystified in delusive language. The truth is not known nor presented to the satisfaction of him who does reason from and effect to cause as an American mechanic and a philosopher who never sleeps nor slumbers. He knows that he has found the cause that has produced this progressive deadly result, pulmonary tuberculosis, tuberculosis of the hip, spine or any other location or part of the whole system. We must see the cause before we can judiciously proceed or hope to give relief on such cases.

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